The borderline obsession culture has with pedophilia (and arguably, not actual CSA), has done so much identifiable damage to online spaces. As someone on Tumblr for over a decade, it's been wild to see it in action.

This is basically what happened to lolisho content at the start, in the sense that PayPal, MasterCard, et al innovated this death-by-debanking policy by first figuring out how to do it via lolisho. Which a lot of us (self included) did not want to defend. But I think that was a strategic error

a friend of mine who's worked on a somewhat recent free multiplayer game says this about player feedback that I feel like is very astute

hearing the feedback is frequently important but responding to it well almost never means just doing what the players say they want

Unfortunately, Bluesky is unavailable in Mississippi right now, due to a new state law that requires age verification for all users.

While intended for child safety, we think this law poses broader challenges & creates significant barriers that limit free speech & harm smaller platforms like ours.